Well, look at what just fluttered into our mailbox: an invite to an Amazon event next Wednesday. Obviously, we're expecting the Amazon tablet. And probably a newer, cheaper, better Kindle. And yep, we're kind of excited.

Nick Bilton flags a surge of job openings at Amazon, all for the Kindle team. Word is that Amazon's working on a touchscreen color Kindle, and if anything, this hiring spree shows that they're not screwing around: They're gathering software engineers, new QA staff and apparently talking to game publishers about games…